[rowanG077]

Isn't that just moving the goalpost to a higher level of abstraction? You could envision an AI were the only instruction is spread yourself. In that quest it could create a vastly more impressive society of AI agents with their own culture.

Humans have instructions too, which are rooted in evolution and biology. It's not at all clear to me how an AI that follows an instruction must, per definition, be considered unintelligent. That would imply Humans are unintelligent.